I started loading a transporter at a car plant and after the first few cars were on the snow came down, ungritted yard, steel decks on trucks at all sorts of angles, cold engines on cars…the list goes on. Drivers were asked if they were happy to continue loading or not, if not they had to unload and leave the premises. Does it really matter if the cars are going on or coming off? It’s the same risks, albeit in a slightly different order. I can only guess that if a driver replied he was happy to continue the company involved would use that as a get out of jail card if something happened. If you were unloading then it wasn’t clear how the vehicles would be returned to the load lanes as the access roads are for the load sticks and don’t meet the loading area.
Drivers are now no longer allowed access to the main building and any issues with vehicles/loading they have to go to security. The approved route is a 5 minute walk across the loading bays (and trucks have to reverse into them), alongside, and sometimes between, rows of parked cars and across areas of two way traffic plus the entry and exit gates. The walk is that far it nearly covers two health authorities